Interpretable Inverse Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Large Language Model Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29459v1
• Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:30:13 GMT
• Title: Interpretable Inverse Design of Metal-Organic Frameworks with Large Language Model Agents
• Abstract summary: Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) requires searching a vast space where property labels are expensive and most machine-learning models reveal little about why a structure succeeds.<n>We introduce LLM4MOF, a closed-loop framework in which language-model agents reason about chemistry, build candidate MOFs, and test them in simulation.
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• Abstract: Inverse design of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) requires searching a combinatorially vast space where property labels are expensive and most machine-learning models reveal little about why a structure succeeds. We introduce LLM4MOF, a closed-loop framework in which language-model agents reason about chemistry, build candidate MOFs, and test them in simulation, refining hypotheses over ten autonomous iterations. One agent proposes interpretable design hypotheses over metal nodes, linkers, pore geometry, and functional chemistry, and a second translates them into constraints that select candidate MOFs, each made of a metal node, organic linker, and matching topology. Each hypothesis is tested through four diagnostic beams that apply different subsets of its constraints, so comparing them shows whether geometry, chemistry, or metal choice drives performance. Even when blind to the global property landscape of databases, LLM4MOF concentrates its search on top-performing structures across six adsorption, separation, and electronic-structure tasks within 400 property evaluations. The same loop also generates new MOFs de novo and validates them in live simulation, where it adapts the geometry to each requested condition, outperforming random search and a genetic algorithm at roughly $1 per campaign. LLM4MOF shows that language-model agents can run interpretable, simulation-grounded inverse design without training a model per objective.

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